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Big Day

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on On Ruby.
Wow! What a day for news. So far, here are my three favorites: Ruby 1.8.5 has been announced! Mauricio has posted a ChangeLog at his blog. Go grab a...

Great Contest

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on On Ruby.
Peter Cooper, over at Ruby Inside put his money where his mouth was to generate some new resources for the Ruby world. He ran a contest with a $100 prize...

Betty Has Buttons

~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
I took an interviewing class a long time ago, and the teacher talked about an idea that I'm still finding new ways to apply. She called it a "Betty...

Coverity Code Analysis and Ruby

~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Recently, Coverity added Ruby to it's list of scanned projects (overview data is available here). Because Perl and Python were already in Coverity...

More ParseTree Goodness

~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Sean and I decided to work on finding noops in conditionals for checkr. It turns out ParseTree made this a lot easier than we thought it would. Here...

Workin' in the coal mine

~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Sometimes, it doesn't look like there's anything as dark and forbidding as a coal mine, unless it's the inside of Ruby's C implementation...

The Art of R: interview and mini-review

3 months ago by pate on On Ruby.
The Art of R Programming is an approachable guide to the R programming language. While tutorial in nature, it should also serve as a reference. Author...